Wiktionary offers us an academic word list (See a brief intro below).
Click on the link ( http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Academic_word_list ) for the word list.
If you are supposed to talk about 2 words from the list,
make a post before the weekend,
telling us what the 2 words are and why!
"The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. [...]
The 570 words are divided into 10 sublists. The sublists are ordered such that the words in the first sublist are the most frequent words and those in the last sublist are the least frequent." (From: Wiktionary)
Wendy
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ReplyDeleteWhen I studied in Canada about International Trade, during the class, teacher read a textbook and I was really sleepy because I was hung over, that’s right I couldn’t concentrate what he talk about, anyway there was something making me awake that teacher spoke out the word “norm”. We have same sound of the word in Korea that is also ‘Norm’; mean that way to call a boy but it may sound a little impolite. When I hear that word, I confused I am in Canada, that’s right, I thought he was angry at that I sleep in a class, so I respond automatically spoken in Korean loudly. And at once everybody in the class turned face and looked me like what happen there. After that happen I cannot forget that word.
ReplyDeleteAlso when I studied in Canada, in financial class we told about the Asian financial crisis and teacher said “after Asian crisis occurred, the international investor tend to buy American bond…” at that time, I didn’t know that the bond means a kind of a debenture, as I know on, the bond is kind of chemical thing to attach something and some guys put that inside plastic bag and inhale that as a narcotic. That’s right I thought Asian crisis made the investor being craze and have a hand in a drug.
I will talk to maintenance and element. When I touch my presently study, I read the science paper frequently. I study the forest nutrient cycling. I frequently read “maintenance” and “element” on the paper. For example, the results from Okinawa Island nutrient cycling study suggest that typhoon-driven “maintenance” of rapid cycling of phosphorous and nitrogen and their high availability in soil appears to be an important mechanism to maintain productivity in the subtropical forest on Okinawa Island (Xu et al., 2004). The word mean the act of keeping something in good condition by checking or repairing it regularly, to keep, maintaining, to hold and to preserve. The word other means money that somebody must pay regularly to their former wife, husband or partner, especially when they have had children together and the synonym is alimony. The second word, I will talk about “element”. When I read the paper, element often is used. For example, nitrogen, calcium, magnesium, potassium and carbon are macro elements for plant. The word means a simple chemical substance that consists of atoms of only one type and cannot be split by chemical means into a simple substance. Element other means a natural or suitable place where one feels comfortable, especially for an animal and the synonyms is environment, field, habitation, medium, sphere. The word means a group of people who form a part of a larger group or society.
ReplyDeleteI was once confused about the word "Context", that why do we need to put up "con" together with "text". It's actually not that difficult to figure out the rule after you link the wonder with the cue: the prefix "con" means "with and together", obvious to all, within the text so comes context, exactly the same meaning of "content". But then you can explore more of its meaning here, it also means the ideas that link from one to another text. Text is sometime written in different paragraphs. So to look at its context we need to understand all text in the paragraphs. so context here also means to combine the text to get the concept/point.
ReplyDeleteWhat's more i believe you have heard of "the historical context", the context here means setting, situation that happens in something.
So no matter on what occasion it happens on, it share the same idea unanimously : to get us clear.
Little conclusion here:
Context=content
context= combine text in different paragraphs
context=situation/circumstance about/around something
So you can note that they're all to make you clear of something.
The second word from sublist 2 I would propound here the word "affect" both in Noun and Verb form. Many get confused about its use and difference with "influence".
When ‘affect’ is used as a verb (used with object), it gives the following meanings
To act on; produce an effect or change in
Ex: Rain affected the crops
To impress the mind; move the feeling of
Ex: Her love affected him so deeply
When ‘affect’ is used as a noun
Psychology, feeling or emotion
In psychiatry: observed emotional response that is restricted, flat, or blunted affect, a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia.
Whereas influence is the power to make other people agree with your opinions or do what you want.
Therefore,
If something affects a person or thing, it influences them or causes them to change in some way.
Or
To have an influence on people or situations means to affect what they do or what happens.
Glad that you are willing to be here and share with us what you know about certain words even though you are not forced to do that!
ReplyDeleteAnd to Leo,
I have shared your 'norm' story with my freshman students.
It's really interesting!
As for 淑偉 and 淑霞,
I believe you are ready to talk about the two words you picked out from the list.
Pity that we did not have time for your talks last Tuesday.
I think there will be some time this Tuesday!
Wendy